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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Annual
General Desc:
Straggly plant with reddish, hairy branching stems and bluish-purple bell-shaped flowers in coiled clusters. They are often found growing in tangles among shrubs. Despite one of its common names, it is not related to garden heliotropes.
Identification notes: Annual, reddish stems erect or trailing. Plant is covered with fine stiff hairs. Leaves alternate, once or twice pinnate, leaflets ovoid. Purple flowers tubular, borne along terminal coiled stems. Bracts are hairy, corolla is bluish.
Height:
To 30 inches
Habitat Description: Along washes and bajadas and less often rocky slopes.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Semidesert Grasslands, Pinyon Juniper Woodland
Elevation: 1000 - 5000 feet
Color:
Bluish-purple
Shape:
Bell-shaped in elongated clusters
Tubular:
N
Flowering Period:
Feb - Jun
Description:
The blue to bluish-purple flowers are bell-shaped with 5 rounded, united petals to 1/4 inch wide. The flowers are clustered in finely haired, terminal coils.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Compound
Leaf Shape:
Pinnatifid
Leaf Margin:
Lobed
Leaf Attachment:
Basal,alternate and opposite
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
The green leaves are finely haired, fern-like, once or twice pinnately divided and highly variable to 3 inches long.
Fruit Type: Capsule
Seed Notes: Seeds 4 or fewer, red-brown, narrowly ovoid, pitted.
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